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title: A cartoon shows the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey as real… — Parties: teams with ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon shows the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey as real animals voting. What should be put right? Test 4 of lesson 4 «Parties: teams with ideas» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 4 · Parties: teams with ideas

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A cartoon shows the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey as real animals voting. What should be put right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon, real animals · **What happens:** show, vote, put · **To what, where:** Republican elephant

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This is test 4 of lesson 4 «Parties: teams with ideas» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey as real animals voting.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:t4:1
# text = A cartoon shows the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey as real animals voting.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Republican	Republican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Democrat	Democrat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	voting	vote	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon |  | the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey |  |  | as real animals | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient |
| 2 | **vote** | gerund | real animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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*Sentence 2:* What should be put right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:t4:2
# text = What should be put right?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | should · passive |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Only donkeys are allowed to vote

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:t4:o1:1
# text = Only donkeys are allowed to vote
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | present · passive |  | donkeys |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **vote** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | donkeys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The animals choose the president by stomping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:t4:o2:1
# text = The animals choose the president by stomping
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	stomping	stomp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | present | the animals | the president |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Theme |
| 2 | **stomp** | gerund | the animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Real elephants and donkeys vote in the USA every four years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:t4:o3:1
# text = Real elephants and donkeys vote in the USA every four years
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	vote	vote	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | present | Real elephants and donkeys |  |  | the USA | year |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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They are just old cartoon symbols for the two parties

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:t4:o4:1
# text = They are just old cartoon symbols for the two parties
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	symbols	symbol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | old cartoon symbols |  |  |  | for the two parties | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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